A high school in San Antonio, Texas is under fire for its treatment of a female student who was punished for reprimanding the dress code while wearing a long-sleeved dress that exposed her knees.

17-year-old Sophia Abuabara, a student at Tom C. Clark High School, was repeatedly reprimanded on Monday for wearing the seemingly-modest item - a dress code violation that was made all the more controversial by the fact that boys at the same school are allegedly permitted to wear shorts with a much higher hemline.

The look - which was documented on Instagram by Sophia's mother, Rosey Abuabara - appears as though it would pass the standard 'fingertip test,' which asks that hemlines fall below the reach of a student's fingertips.

Who wore it best? 17-year-old Sophia (left), was sent home for wearing a 'too short' dress - meanwhile, mother Rosey captured a pair of short shorts on a male student in the parking lot

Yet, when Sophia arrived at her high school, where she is class president, she was reprimanded for her dress.

According to Abuabara, Sophia had multiple tests that day in intensive subjects such as Physics, Latin, and United States History, and she expressed her fury after claiming that the school principal, Dr. Jerry Woods, tried to interrupt Sophia's Latin exam in an attempt to discuss her outfit.

Though the classroom teacher told the principal to wait until after the test, Abuabara writes on Instagram, 'just knowing she needed to talk to him messed with her concentration'.

In a statement released to Yahoo Style, a school spokesperson said of the incident: 'This issue was addressed by campus administrators in a manner consistent with other dress code violations on campus and no disciplinary action was taken.

'The student was not taken out of class during a test, rather she was sent to visit with campus administration after her test was completed.'

Nevertheless, Abuabara herself was called to bring her daughter a change of clothes.

Abuabara arrived at the school, not with pants in tow, but with harsh words for the administration.

Robert Kinsel, the male student allegedly photographed, commented on Abuabara's post with his perspective on the situation.

'I didn't wear that around school all day,' Kinsel says. 'Those were my workout clothes and I changed before going to the weight room after school.' He later added,

'I think the problem is not so much with the boys who wear [shorts] as it is with the administration and an uneven application of the rules.'

In recent years, the debate about sexist dress codes has raged across the United States, with young women being sent home for the strangest violations in their wardrobe.

Next up for the Abuabaras: Rosey tells Yahoo Style she plans on contacting the ACLU and the school board to make official complaints and hopefully change the 'slut-shaming' mentality of high school dress codes.